How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure

ISBN 978-0-9641168-5-6
$12.95 paperback
5.5 x 8.5 - 160 Pages
Pub. Date 2000

Joan & David Peterson

• About the Book
• About the Author
• Praise for Eat Smart in Poland    
• Table of Contents  
• Ordering Information  
• Other EAT SMART Books by Ginkgo Press 

This smartly designed culinary travel guidebook is never out of date. It opens up the world of Polish food to travelers, including students studying abroad, and tells how to find the most delicious, authentic, and adventuresome eating experiences there.

The authors share the secrets they’ve uncovered while hunting for something good to eat—from restaurant dining to home cooking to fresh market produce—to allow you to get to the heart of the culture through its cuisine. The book also includes recipes from some of the finest chefs in Poland.

As you know, food is one of the first and most immediate contacts a traveler makes with a foreign country. Travelers to Poland can make it a more memorable contact by taking along the easy-to-use Eat Smart in Poland, one of the guides in the award-winning EAT SMART series. The authors show that traveling and eating in unfamiliar territory doesn’t have to be gastronomical guesswork.

“Eat Smart in Poland provides a good introduction to the still rather exotic and little-known world of Polish cookery. This stimulating, easy-to-read book presents a lively historical background on Poland, once the biggest country in Europe, and contains what is probably the most extensive Polish culinary lexicon ever published in English. It also includes everthing visitors need to know before they start restaurant hopping in Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk and places in between. An added bonus for culinary do-it-yourselfers is a nice selection of authentic Polish recipes from both sides of the Atlantic.”
—Robert Stybel, author of Polish Heritage Cookery

“Poland is quickly becoming one of the great travel destinations of Europe. I hope everyone who decides to visit Poland will take a copy of Eat Smart in Poland. It picks up where almost every other guidebook about Poland seems to stop. There’s history, a regional food guide, recipes and a guide that would help visitors to Poland make just the right selections from a menu. A keeper.”
—Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, author of Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore

"Must" reading for anyone traveling in Poland
Eat Smart In Poland is "must" reading for anyone traveling in Poland for business or pleasure. The Peterson's provide the reader with a rich historical perspective on the origins and varieties of Polish food; extensive background on regional dishes, and easy-to-use menu guide to help make "surprise-free" selections from restaurant menus; a comprehensive glossary of foods and flavors; Polish phrases for ordering and buying food; handy shopping tips for outdoor food and spice markets;; and recipes to preview the taste of Poland before departure. The informative and engaging text is wonderfully illustrated throughout with "on location" color photography by the Peterson's, and with black-and-white illustrations by Susie Medaris. Eat Smart In Poland is also highly recommended for ethnic cuisine clubs, and armchair traveler kitchen cookbook collections!"
—Midwest Book Review

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Cuisine of Poland
An historical survey of the development of Polish cuisine and the outside influences felt by several millenia of foreign intervention by traders and invaders from many nations.

• Early History 
• The Piast Dynasty (966-1370) 
• The Jagiellonian Dynasty (1382-1572) 
• The Era of Elected Kings (1572-1795) 
• The Partitions (1795-1918) 
• Recent Times (1918-Present 

Regional Polish Food
A quick tour through the Poland to see the diversity of cooking styles encountered in traveling throughout the country.

Polish Food in a Nutshell 
The Regions of Poland
Holiday Foods

Tastes of Poland
A selection of delicious, easy-to-prepare regional and national recipes to try before leaving home.

Shopping in Poland's Food Markets
Tips to increase your savvy in both the exciting outdoor food markets and modern supermarkets.

Resources
A listing of stores carrying hard-to-find Polish foods and of groups that focus on travel to Poland or offer opportunities for person-to-person contact through home visits to gain a deeper understanding of the country, including its cuisine.

• Mail-Order Suppliers of Polish Foods 
• Cooking Schools, Tours and Travel Agencies 
• Some Useful Organizations to Know About 

Helpful Phrases
Questions in Polish, with English translations, which will assist you in finding, ordering and buying foods or ingredients, particularly regional specialties.

• Phrases for Use in Restaurants 
• Phrases for Use in Food Markets 
• Other Useful Phrases 

Menu Guide
An extensive listing of menu entries in Polish, with English translations, to make ordering food an easy and immediately rewarding experience.

Foods and Flavors Guide
A comprehensive glossary of ingredients, kitchen utensils and cooking methods in Polish, with English translations.

Bibliography

Index

Eat Smart in Poland
ISBN 0-9641168-5-5
Paperback
5.5 x 8.5 - 160 Pages
Pub. Date 2000

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Sample Recipes

Eat Smart in Mexico - 2nd Edition

How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Food & Embark on a Tasting Adventure

ISBN 978-0-9776801-0-8
$13.95 paperback
5.5 x 8.5 - 160 Pages
2nd Edition Pub. Date 2008

Joan Peterson

This second edition includes an updated resource chapter and an index with a Spanish translation for each English entry.

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 Menu

• About the Book
• About the Author
• Praise for Eat Smart in Mexico     
• Table of Contents  
• Ordering Information  
• Other EAT SMART Books by Ginkgo Press  

Eat Smart in Mexico is a celebration of Mexican cuisine and one of nine titles in the authoritative Eat Smart series. It contains a rich historical perspective on the origins and varieties of Mexican food and extensive background on delectable regional dishes. Spanish phrases are included to make your culinary adventure even more successful.

At the core of the book are two extensive guides to Spanish terms with English translations. The “Menu Guide” demystifies food selection, allowing visitors to order with confidence in restaurants; the “Foods & Flavors Guide” is a comprehensive list of foods, spices, cooking utensils, and cooking styles, to make shopping in the colorful outdoor markets easy and fun. For the adventuresome traveler, this is a richly annotated resource that will help you understand and appreciate Mexican culture through authentic local cuisine.

This second edition includes an updated resource chapter and an index with a Spanish translation for each English entry.

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"Eat Smart in Mexico is part of a comprehensive, practical around the-world series of culinary travel guides. Written by the inveterate travelers and gastronomic experts Joan and David Peterson and published by Ginkgo Press, it is an invaluable source for food lovers who want to know what Mexican cuisine is all about and what they will be eating when they are here."
—Vicky Cowal, The Herald Mexico

“For the adventuresome traveler, this book is a “smart,” richly annotated road map that will steer you to the right markets and teach you where to find authentic Mexican food. Eat Smart in Mexico offers what is most important about Mexican food and culture wrapped in a nutshell. If you cannot get to Mexico, this book will provide vicarious travel and cooking inspiration of the first order. As in Eat Smart in Brazil, the Petersons have succeeded in reaching a middle ground between the practical and the scholarly to unravel some of the best kept secrets of one of the world’s most complex cuisines.”
—Maricel Presilla, Ph.D., Culinary historian and author specializing in the cuisines of Latin America and Spain

"...Highly recommended for all public libraries.”
—Library Journal

Preface  

Acknowledgments

The Cuisine of Mexico
An historical survey of the development of Mexico's mestizo cuisine, a rich amalgamation of the foods of pre-Columbian agriculturists and the Spanish and other Europeans.

• Early History 
• The Olmecs 
• The Maya 
• The Aztecs 
• The Spanish 
• The French 

Regional Mexican Food 
A quick tour through the six regions of Mexico to see the diversity of cooking styles encountered in traveling the length and breadth of this enormous country.

• Mexican Food in a Nutshell 
• Northern Mexico 
• West-Central Mexico 
• Central Mexico 
• Gulf Coastal Mexico 
• Southern Mexico 
• The Yucatan 
• Tastes of Mexico 

Tastes of Mexico
A selection of delicious, easy-to-prepare regional and national recipes provided by well-known food professionals. Try them before leaving home.

Shopping in Mexico's Food Markets
Tips to increase your savvy in the exciting outdoor food markets and modern supermarkets.

Resources
A listing of markets carrying hard-to-find Mexican foods and of some groups that focus on travel to Mexico or offer the opportunity to have person-to-person contact through home visits to gain a deeper understanding of the country, including its cuisine. 

• Mail-Order Suppliers of Mexican Food Items 
• Cooking Schools, tours and Travel Agencies 
• Some Useful Organizations to Know About 

Helpful Phrases
Questions in Spanish with English translations, which will assist you in finding, ordering and buying foods or ingredients, particularly regional specialties.

• Phrases for Use in Restaurants 
• Phrases for Use in Food Markets 
• Other Useful Phrases 

Menu Guide
An extensive listing of menu entries in Spanish, with English translations, to make ordering food an easy and immediately rewarding experience.

Foods and Flavors Guide
A comprehensive glossary of ingredients kitchen utensils and cooking methods in Spanish, with English translations.

Bibliography 

Ordering Information 

Eat Smart in Mexico - 2nd Edition
ISBN 978-0-9776801-0-8
Paperback
5.5 x 8.5 - 160 Pages
Pub. Date 2008

$13.95 + free shipping via US Media Mail. For international orders, please call 608-233-5488 or email about shipping costs.

Or, for mail orders, send check/money order for $13.95 (free media mail shipping for US orders) to: 

Ginkgo Press, Inc. 
P.O. Box 5346 
Madison, WI 53705